#powerful

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. ↗

— Martha Beck

#child #heals #inner #inner child #powerful

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#get #how #i #i can #inspire

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#behavior #exert #human #human behavior #influences

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#conflict #hands #means #neutral #powerful

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No. ↗

— Alison McGhee

#powerful #silence #silence

And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#manipulation #people #pity #powerful #smarts

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#history #most #nations #powerful #republics

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#himself #mastered #may #mightier #others

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#army #attack #country #defence #experienced